Building an Emotionally Healthy Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Conflict in marriage can often feel like an all-consuming and explosive cycle that eats away at peace. It’s essential to acknowledge past experiences that contribute to these negative cycles. Ron (a licensed marriage and family therapist) and his wife Nan describe how self-regulation and retraining the brain's triggers can help bring restoration and healing in a marriage. The couple shares their own journey through the tragic loss of their young son and how these principles impacted that difficult process.
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| 0:00.0 | Your marriage can be healed. |
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| 0:12.4 | We'll go to this thing, but this is it. |
| 0:14.7 | If this doesn't work, we're done. |
| 0:16.3 | What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage. |
| 0:23.6 | Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com. |
| 0:28.6 | And it was just the same thing. |
| 0:39.2 | And it just kept cycling. |
| 0:40.8 | And I kept responding. |
| 0:42.7 | And he kept responding. |
| 0:44.5 | And it just was, what were we, 20-something years in? |
| 0:47.9 | And it was like, it's either you or me or get us some help, basically. |
| 0:52.9 | Wow. |
| 0:52.9 | I mean, that's pretty dramatic. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, he's a therapist. I'm like, obviously, you can't fix this, so get us some help to help fix this. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, that's Nandiel describing some of the pain points in her marriage to her husband, Ron. |
| 1:06.4 | And they're with us again today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to unpack a little more |
| 1:11.6 | and to help us understand how we can get to a better spot in our own marriages. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us. |
| 1:19.7 | You know, John, I think after yesterday's program, it made me think about the speck in the eye. |
| 1:25.4 | And I've never really thought about that verse in the context of marriage, but it's glaringly |
| 1:30.5 | obvious. |
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